Re: Version renaming on XP SP3 somehow incompatible

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robin Bannister <address@hidden> wrote:
> I wrote:
>>
>> And now I have also installed 2.12.3. Both it and 2.13.9 run OK, but the
>> others crash.
>
> Maybe a long shot, but could my problem be related to issue 975?
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=975

My guess is that the two issues are related.

> I am wary of doing something which makes _all_ the versions crash. But by
> installing further versions I was able to narrow it down to
> 2.13.6(nok)2.13.7(ok) and 2.12.2(nok)2.12.3(ok).
> Which led me to
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-11/msg00012.html It is
> beyond me to follow this up.

I don't rename directories like this, but I *have* experienced crashes
in the past when installing/uninstalling LilyPond without first
removing the font cache directory.

I'm hoping that once LilyPond is interacting with Fontconfig correctly
again, these problems will magically go away.  Do you think it's worth
opening a separate issue, given that fixing #975 might also fix this
issue?

-Patrick